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Windows 7 vs. Linux w/ Sandy Bridge New Acceleration Architecture

The new benchmarks going out today on Phoronix are looking at the performance of Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics with the latest Microsoft Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux drivers. Not only are we using the very latest drivers, but there is also a separate Linux test run with SNA, the "Sandy Bridge New Acceleration" architecture enabled.

In a few days on Phoronix are more Intel Sandy Bridge benchmarks (from a Core i5 2500K) using the latest Linux Git code and comparing it to the Nouveau (NVIDIA) and Radeon (ATI/AMD) open-source drivers with a few different graphics cards.

Please try to upclock the card before doing so! I can give you detailed instructions if you want.

Safe reclocking is still being worked on, it works on most of my cards but not on all of them. I'm trying to get this done very soon but can't promise anything.

Obviously, the selection of multi-platform OpenGL games also continues to be limited since Mesa and Intel's Linux driver do not yet fully support OpenGL 3.0 and there are various other limitations of this open-source OpenGL library.

Is this true, or is Michael being "creative"* here? The Gallium drivers obviously have no problem with more complex games than Michael ever shows, and I suspect that the Intel drivers don't either but I'm not sure.

* Creative = technically true by default, but false for anyone who spends 5 minutes adding S3TC support, which is far easier and no less standard than, for example, the SBA feature he's also testing here